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Pursuing your artistic career full-time shouldn’t mean sacrificing your personal wellbeing or lifestyle. Find and connect with resources that will support you living a happy, healthy and fulfilling life while pursuing your career.

Indiana Housing Resources for Artists
- Indiana COVID-19 Rental Assistance Program
- The Hawks, Goshen
  A live/work community designed for artists and entrepreneurs with space to work, live, and entertain
- Uptown Artists Lofts, Michigan City
  Affordable live/work facility for low-income artists and their families, resident gallery exhibition/performance space, and commercial space for creative businesses and arts organizations
- Indy Indie Artists Colony, Indianapolis
- Artist and Public Life Residency (APLR), Indianapolis
  Affordable housing for artists
- The Actor’s Fund Housing Board
- Indiana Housing Now
  Affordable housing opportunities
- Homebuyer Education
  Help preparing for buying and owning a house from the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority (IHDCA)
- Homebuyer Programs
  Special financing and help from the IHDCA
- Renter’s Rights (IHCDA)
Health Insurance for Artists
- What is a Health Center?
  Federally regulated health services provided regardless of ability to pay
- Find a Health Center
- Healthy Indiana Plan (HIP)
- The Marketplace
- Artists Guide to Health Insurance
- See Resources for Your Business for information on insuring your artistic practice!
Mental and Physical Health for Artists
- Entertainment Assistance Program
  Counseling, support, and financial assistance for performing arts or entertainment professionals
- The Dancer’s Resource
  Emotional support and resources for dancers recovering from a significant injury
- The Songwriter’s Lifeline
  Support for personal or work-related problems
- HIV/AIDS Initiative
  Confidential, holistic plans and support systems for entertainment professionals
- Disability Support
  Supportive services for entertainment professionals and their families when they are coping with a short- or long-term illness or disability
- What to do if you can’t afford therapy
- Resources on Harassment in the Workplace
- Entertainment Community Fund
- Open Path Psychotherapy Collective
- 16 Directories for Therapists of Color
- National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color
- Free Online Guided Meditation
- National Alliance on Mental Illness
- Online Sobriety Resources: AA, NA, Al-Anon, Tempest, In the Rooms
- Dance Injury Prevention with May Kesler
- Text HOME to 741741 from anywhere in the United States, anytime, about any type of crisis.
- Be Well Indiana - mental health resources for Hoosiers
Parenthood Resources for Artists
- Artist Residency in Motherhood
- You can be a mother and still be a successful artist
- Artists Raising Kids
  A collection of thoughts and tactics from artists parents
- Artist Parent Index
  A searchable index of artists, exhibits, and resources exploring production and caretaking
- Women’s Studio Workshop
Emergency Support for Artists
- Artists At Risk Connection (ARC)
  A global directory of resources to help artists.
- Insurance in the Arts- Virtual Pocket Guides
- CERF+
  Voluntary task force supplying temporary relief to artists
- The Haven
  Assistance for artists facing career-threatening emergencies
- Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.
  Grant awards to artists facing unexpected disasters
- Artists' Charitable Fund
  Financial support for artists struck by medical, fire, or other disasters
- Artists' Fellowship, Inc.
  Financial assistance for artists in times of sickness, natural disaster, bereavement, or unexpected extreme hardship
- Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grants
  Funding for artists dealing with hardship or who incur unexpected expenses for projects close to the completion date
- Disability Support
  Supportive services for entertainment professionals and their families when they are coping with a short- or long-term illness or disability.
- The Actor’s Fund Disaster Resources
- Funeral & Burial Assistance for entertainment professionals
- Actors Fund Entertainment Assistance Program
  Support for demonstrated financial need to performing arts and entertainment professionals with at least five years of paid industry earnings
- Alliance for Artist Communities Emergency Funds for Individual Artists Participating in Residencies
  Support for artists who have been accepted and scheduled for a residency, but are not able to participate due to a sudden change in circumstances
- American Institute for Conservation for Historic and Artistic Works
  Help for cultural institutions during emergencies such as flooding.
- Authors League Fund
  Helps professional writers continue their careers, even their lives, with dignity by providing open-ended, interest-free, no-strings-attached loans to pay for pressing expenses
- Jazz Foundation of America
  For jazz and blues musicians requiring emergency assistance and social services
- MusiCares
  Provides assistance to musicians including musical instrument replacement for musicians affected by disasters
- PEN Writer’s Emergency Fund
  The PEN America Writers’ Emergency Fund is an emergency fund for professional—published or produced—writers in acute, emergency financial crisis
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
  For painters, artists, and sculptors who work on paper, including printmakers, with demonstrable financial need
- Foundation for Contemporary Artists
  Immediate assistance to visual and performing artists living and working anywhere in the United States, for projects occurring in the U.S. and abroad

Listings are not endorsements and do not necessarily represent the views of the Indiana Arts Commission or State of Indiana.

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